I'm glad you share my enthusiasm for SF anthologies. Some fellow SF collectors used to laugh when I said I collected anthologies, but when I started collecting hardcover editions they were really inexpensuve to buy. I remember going into a secondhand bookshop here in Yorkshire a few years ago and finding about thirty British edition anthologies, published by Grayson and Grayson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and others, priced at £6 each. I went to the bookseller and said I'd take the lot for £3 each and to my surprise he agreed. I was a very happy collector. Keith Roberts gave me his copy of the hardcover edition of Aldiss and Harrison's "Decade the 1960s", it has Keith's annotations on the contents page. I got Brian to sign the book of course.
Wow. Even better than the last one. I was raised on SF anthologies of different decades from different church sales. It's always a love / hate. They ALL promise - the question is, how many deliver? Such great books in this one! And you got really chewy & satisfying in some of those descriptions. Thanks for the shopping list reminders. I love seeing what's going out too
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Oh, agreed! I Still keep buying them and look longingly at others I may never get to. . . The SFHoF is WELL above average. I thought the Novellas one was a little bit clunkier; it got me to read & enjoy that Heinlein "Universe" and I could not claw my way through all the macho posturing in the original "Rogue Moon" to get to the good stuff, but still, essential! So another complicated relationship with old paper. . .
@@salty-walt I have to say I struggled with the same elements of 'Rogue Moon' on a recent re-read, but I think Budrys was aiming for a kind of oblique hard coldness that later typified much of the New Wave, but couldn't quite get there- first time around, I think I coped with it differently as I was also reading a lot of Classic Hardboiled crime fiction at that time and it seemed akin to that and I was used to it. The Heinlein is one of the few I like, probably my favourite in its full form.
Weird timing, I happen to be reading C L Moore's 'No Woman Born' today. I haven't read a lot of Bayley but loved what I've read. Stableford's Daedalus books are great fun. A small crew making contact with a different old colony in each book, with a biological/ethical dilemma usually to be sorted out by the main character.
I'm filming my Moore video tomorrow- you must let me know if you've read "Vintage Season" yet- I re-read it for the first time in decades this week and it blew me away all over again. Yeah, Stableford is always pretty reliable- if you've not read the Hooded Swan books, I really recommend them- short, sharp Space Opera with bags of attitude and colour, great stuff, similar in many ways to the Dedalus books.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal I own and have read all of the Hooded Swan. Loved them. Vintage season is the final story in the ‘best of’ that I’m amazingly still not finished. Soon though!
@@sciencefictionreads That 'Best of' is super-rare in the UK: I am planning to acquire one, waiting for a dealer to end a protracted holiday and start selling again....
Hi Stephen! Another fascinating video. By the way, the cover of the NEL Thorns is by Tim White, not Bruce Pennington - the cover of Those Who Watch, also. I adore White's work; he's in my top three greatest SF illustrators. Not sure who the other two are.
Thank you! I learn so much watching your videos. It would be so helpful if you made a video dedicated to cleaning used books. I’m terrified of ruining mine while removing price stickers and trying to clean off the dust and stains. Thanks again. 😺✌️
Thank you too! If you want to learn about book cleaning, I'd suggest Jules Burt- his collecting channel has extensive cleaning videos, but please keep watching here too!
@@outlawbookselleroriginal I stumbled onto Jules’ channel myself, or was guided there by the omnipresent RU-vid algorithm. Thanks, though, for your kind reply. I do enjoy your knowledgeable ramblings very much, and will definitely continue watching. 😉 😸✌️
Nice to hear some love for Fredric Brown - a favourite of mine fir many years. NESFA did two hard cover volumes, one of his SF novels, and the other of his SF short stories. And Bruin Crimeworks did a large paperback volume of his crime fiction. I don't know if any of these are still available. That artwork for the Great SF Stories 16 I first came across when it was used for a Vangelis album cover. Love collecting volumes of Weird Tales but never seen that Weird Legacies book - need to keep an eye out for that one. Cheers...Peter
Oddly I read "Jack of Shadows" and Stableford's Daedalus books only recently. Each is essentially readable as a standalone but the series has an overarching plot of a mission from Earth visiting a series of planets to which colonists were sent a century or so earlier to see how the colonies have fared: as you mentioned, each has a problem, generally biological, which the team of experts on the ship work to solve. "Roadmarks" is a fun late Zelazny, I still have the cover on the left which I bought new strange aeons ago. Taking your recommendation I've just ordered my first Doris Piserchia so looking forward to reading that, as well as a small haul of Silverbergs I bought recently. Another great video, thanks for sharing.
My pleasure. I was going through my Stablefords today and realised I completed my Dedalus series sometime ago, but there are a few I haven't read- he is someone I've read on-and-off for decades but I am thinking of building my collection quite a bit as he's so reliably entertaining- if you've not read the Hooded Swan books, I very much recommend them Piserchia is an odd fish, but that's why I like her- she has all the virtues of the excesses of Pulp SF, but with a flavour of her own- too quirky to be commercially successful and a little off-balance at times, but definitely an experience!
More great finds. In The Great SF Stories 6, you will find Invariant - John R. Pierce, as I recall. Many great stories in that volume. I have reread #6 maybe a little more than the rest. In #10 is The Monster by Van Vogt. Wow.
Terry Carr only did 3 issues of New Worlds of Fantasy. I have the first and third but number 2 seems hard to find. They are great reprint anthologies, but I really prefer his Universe series of original fiction. I used to own some but they seem to have gone astray. There were some good original fiction series about at that time, including Silverberg's New Dimensions, but they all seem very expensive now, and mostly only available in hardback. Terry's wife edited a rather nice tribute collection called Terry's Universe after he died.
Thanks for the info, Allan, I hadn't got around to looking them up. I need to start collecting 'Universe', which I've neglected. I have a reasonable tranche of 'New Dimensions', some in pbk, some hardcovers and I was reading somehting by RS recently where he mentioned he dealt with 7 different publishers across the lifespan of that series.
Cracking stuff Steve! I don't know if it grants it a stay of execution, but the "Dan" Galouye Dark Universe has 2 complimentary Sphere covers for Counterfeit World and Project Barrier! I'm not sure if there any more in the same style.
Great Video!! So many cool things to see & say - but I'll just thank you for getting toothy with authors that don't come up as much. That stunning wraparound on Asimov 16 is some cover art that was used on a bunch of projects, but never over-saturated somehow. I really liked it as Vangelis Album art. I can't place the other SF books at the moment, but there were a couple at least. Crazy.
Crazy is right! I just bumped into it while looking for Brian M. Stableford books; It was the cover to "Promised Land " as well. Synchronis Serendipity.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Sorry, I *did* hear you, but the serendipitous glee overcame me later after I had forgotten the specific title. Glee. Serendipitous.
